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  • 28 1 TODAY /A=diaCofip MICA(P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Thursday June 21, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY //\=DIj\COFIP MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Thursday June 21, 2007 todayonline.com I
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  • 137 1 Australian swim star Brooke Hanson injured herself in a freak accident in a spa pool in Melbourne on Monday, dashing her Olympic gold medal dreams. The 29-year-old Aussie was demonstrating the benefits of a spa pool on behalf of her sponsor, Endless Spas, when tragedy
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  • 658 1 -AGENCIES Junta announces polls on Nov2s, but critics question if deck is fairly stacked for all BANGKOK Thrown out of focus since last September's coup, Thailand's democratic roadmap regained some definition yesterday as a date for its general elections was finally confirmed: Nov 25. In what
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  • 540 1  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg IF YOUR phone or Internet billing period straddles June and July, you may have wondered how the additional 2-percentage-point hike in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will hit you. The good news is, it need not Star Hub subscribers,
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  • hot news
    • 446 2 ISLAMABAD Outrage mounted in the Muslim world yesterday over Britain's knighthood for Mr Salman Rushdie, with protests spreading to Malaysia and a top Pakistani cleric calling for the novelist to be killed. The rallies came a day after both Pakistan and Iran
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    • 701 2  -  JASMINE YIN This would mean later CPF draw-down at age 65 but willing employers needed jasmine@media corp.com.sg WITH the wheels in motion to get more seniors into the workforce, the Minister-in-Charge of ageing issues, Mr Lim Boon Heng, is thinking of taking
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  • Singapore news
    • 256 4  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@media corp.com.sg A TRAILER driver died early yesterday morning near the Jurong Bird Park after his vehicle apparently hit a road divider. The trailer's cabin was crushed by one of the concrete beams the vehicle was ferrying. More beams were scattered
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 59 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA One of the world's leading animation schools is investing $2.8 million to set up a campus here in September next year. The Sheridan College from Canada, which is receiving support from the Economic Development Board, boasts students who have gone on to work for major
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      • 76 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Certificate of Entitlement (COE) prices for vehicles fell across the board in the latest bidding exercise. The biggest fall was for goods vehicles and buses prices dropped by $1,388 to $5,501. In the Open Category, COE prices fell to $18,539, a decrease of $812. COE
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      • 57 4  -  —TANHUILENG Sing Health Foundation has pumped $2.7 million into its Health Manpower Development Plan scheme, bringing the Health Ministry co-funded scheme to $4.7 million. It supports postgraduate education, offering healthcare professionals opportunities to be attached to renowned international centres. Yesterday, 120 Sing Health staff received the awards,
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      • 104 4 A 27-year-old trainee doctor at Tan Tock Seng Hospital has been charged with secretly filming a nurse in the shower. The incident took place on Jan 25 at 3.35pm in the staff rest room. The accused identified by Chinese media reports as Chen Swee Chin placed a
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    • 497 4  -  LOH CHEE KONG Don't be shocked if next Google comes out of here, says film-maker cheekong@media corp. com. sg CREATIVITY is alive and well in Singapore and it can continue to flourish in spite of the political climate, say foreign experts who were in town for a two-day
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    • 868 6  -  WILLIAM PESEK Time for Asia to spruce up corporate governance MOVE over Frankfurt Forget Paris, Los Angeles and Toronto, too. Asian cities are rapidly surpassing each of these metropolises as centres for global business. Tokyo took the No 3 spot behind London and New York
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    • 505 8  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Action after tip-off about software infringement nazry@mediacorp.com.sg A FOURTH Singapore-linked firm in six months has been raided on suspicion of software infringement, after the Business Software Alliance (BSA) was tipped off. A local land-surveying consultancy on Monday became the latest company to be raided by
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    • 294 8  -  ANSLEYNG CHANNEL NEWSASIA RIDE ON: The latest Sentosa attraction is an extreme ride using the latest in simulation technology. Opened yesterday, Cineblast incorporates sound and light technology found in theme parks such as Universal Studios in the United States. Riders feel every bump and
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  • world news
    • 237 10 -AGENCIES —AFP SPINNING TALES: A Eurocopter-made Tigre helicopter performs a backward roll during its presentation at the 47th Paris Air Show yesterday. The show began on Monday for industry professionals, but is open to the public for three days from tomorrow. About
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    • 325 10 -AGENCIES Call off pact with Spore, says former Indonesian minister JAKARTA A former Indonesian cabinet minister played the nationalism card when he weighed in on the debate on Jakarta's disagreement with Singapore over a defence cooperation pact Professor Machfud MD, who was Defence Minister from 1999 to
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    • 277 10 —AP INDIA is not simply an engine for regional economic growth but also a lynchpin for Asia's security, the Indian foreign minister said yesterday. The regional superpower, with a dominant military and economy, has long been viewed with suspicion by its smaller neighbours
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 74 12 AFP An Indonesian court sentenced a student to three years' imprisonment yesterday for setting up a website that encouraged Indonesians to carry out terrorist attacks against foreigners. The website created by Agung Prabowo, 24, was also used by extremists to communicate with
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      • 89 12 AFP Indonesian police yesterday asked lawyers for an Islamic militant to drop plans to file a lawsuit against them over the way he was arrested Abu Dujana,who confessed to heading the military wing of regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah after being
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      • 64 12 -AFP A Hells Angel biker wanted after a deadly shooting in central Melbourne on Monday surrendered yesterday, police said. Christopher Wayne Hudson, 29, is accused of shooting two men, one fatally. The pair had come to the aid of a woman whom Hudson was
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    • 627 12  -  THITINAN PONGSUDHIRAK Freeze on ousted PM's assets will prolong Thai crisis THAILAND'S former regime has been effectively decapitated, with deposed Premier Thaksin Shinawatra financially debilitated and legally mired under a host of graft charges. Mr Thaksin's assets in Thailand have been controversially frozen by the
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    • 483 14 -AFP Guangzhou environmental monitoring station employs team to detect toxic gases BEIJING A dozen people with professional "noses" are set to help in the battle against pollution in southern China by sniffing out dangerous chemicals in the air. The team will be employed
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    • 177 14 AFP BEIJING China yesterday ordered a nationwide probe targeting the use of forced and slave labour after hundreds of workers some of them children were rescued from brutally-run brickyards in two provinces. At a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, "it was decided that
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    • 285 14 -AGENCIES TAIPEI Taiwan has vowed to proceed with a referendum to rejoin the United Nations under the name Taiwan, despite fierce objections from China and the United States. Yesterday, presidential spokesman David Lee said preparations have already begun, including obtaining the
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    • 278 16 —AFP TOKYO A United States envoy said yesterday that North Korea's nuclear disarmament was back on track, with United Nations' inspectors to return after more than four years and six-nation talks likely to resume within weeks. North Korea had refused to implement
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    • 443 16 —AGENCIES GAZA Israeli aircraft attacked Palestinian rocket launchers yesterday in northern Gaza in the first air strike since Hamas militants seized the coastal strip last week, the army said. Although there were no immediate reports of casualties from the air strike, Israeli soldiers shot
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    • 195 18 AP NEW YORK New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (picture) switched his party status from Republican to unaffiliated, a stunning move certain to be seen as a prelude to an independent presidential bid that would upend the 2008 race. The billionaire former CEO, who was a
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    • 611 18 —AGENCIES Yahoo co-founder is likely to be an 'interim' CEO, say observers THIRTEEN years ago, Mr Jerry Yang was working on his doctoral degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University when he and fellow student David Filo created Jerry Yang's Guide to the World Wide
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    • 420 20 -AGENCIES WASHINGTON Apparently even dire warnings about the threat of snooping by American spies is not enough to keep some top French government officials from nursing BlackBerry addictions on the sly. A report in the French newspaper Le Monde said bureaucrats continue to lamentand
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  • Voices
    • 312 22  -  KEN LEE Important historical value in preserving old buildings Letter from THANK you for your report, "Butterfly House escapes wrecker's ball" (June 19). To me, this is an important issue concerning the way Singaporeans think about our material history. This issue is not something that
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    • 151 22  -  MICHAEL CHUAKHENG HWEE Letter from LOOKING at the recent rise of dengue cases in Singapore to epidemic levels, I have a suggestion for the National Environment Agency. We must deprive Aedes mosquitoes of all sources of stagnant water in which to lay eggs. One way to
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    • 153 22  -  ANUARMDRAIS Letter from RECENTLY, while riding my motorcycle, I noticed a piece of plastic stuck to one of my tyres. I stopped along the road shoulder and removed the plastic. Just then, a traffic police officer passed by but did not stop to
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    • 260 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I BONDING WITH YOUR SPOUSE If you drew a circle around a list of your spouse's interests and another circle around your own, would those circles overlap? The more the circles overlap, the more areas of interest you share with your mate,
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    • 382 24  -  SIMON NG YAP PENG Job opportunities include those in the civil service Letter from I READ with concern the letters, "Rate qualifications by employer recognition" by Lin Ko Ping (June 18), and "Give late bloomers an equal chance at employment" by Annie Chua (June 19).
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    • 116 24 I read with interest about how hotels in the downtown area, especially those with a good view of the Formula 1 race circuit, are mulling a 'minimum stay requirement' of as long as five days. In my opinion, if we want to make F1 here a success, we must
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    • 269 25  -  NALEEZAEBRAHIM, Letter from Deputy Director, Media Relations, Land Transport Authority I REFER to Mr Ec Teck Siew's letter "A Balestier Road menace" (June 13), where he commented on the danger posed by vehicles parked along Balestier Road after 7pm. The stretch
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    • 254 25  -  SERENA LOW Letter from RECENTLY, as I was watching the news, there was a feature on cosmetic dental surgery. The report was about how more elderly folk were going for cosmetic dental surgery such as implants and veneers to make them look younger. Of
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    • 641 28  -  LIANG DINGZI news@newstoday.com.sg WHEN I conduct a customer service workshop, one question I have often been asked is: Are our "internal" customers as deserving as our "external" ones? The differentiation is unfortunate. While it is not trivial, it would also perturb me if we had to
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    • 138 24 VOICES ON RADIO [I y I] Are Singaporeans F|h |1 working themselves to V^L^ the bone, and going home just to sleep? I ITJ Z That was an issue raised by Today reader Gilbert Goh, and echoed by many other readers who have voiced their concerns over the past week.
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  • Business
    • 461 30  -  CHRISTIE LOH Coming to River Valley at above $2,500 psf christie@mediacorp.com.sg HOPING to ride the current property wave, developer Novelty Group will soon launch a River Valley project that is asking for around double the prices in the area. Named Luma, the 75-unit freehold
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      • 48 30 Nikkei 225 *****.68 +48.07 +0.26 HK Hang Seng *****.67 +101.78 +0.47 Australia ASX200 6397.0 +25.0 +0.39 Korea Camp 1783.79 -24.06 -1.33 Thailand SET 777.10 +13.32 +1.74 Jakarta Camp 2161.074 +18.888 +0.88 Shenzhen B 724.0 -12.43 -1.69 Mumbai Sensex 14.411.95. +116.45 +0.81 Malaysia KLCI 1386.27 +9.48 +0.69
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      • 106 30 -AFP Singapore share prices took a breather and closed lower on Wednesday after three successive trading days of record highs, dealers said. They said overall sentiment remains positive despite the weaker close. The ST Index fell 0.88 points to 3,628.67, after rising to a fresh all-time intra-day peak of
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      • 20 30 Gold US$/oz 664.70 Silver US$/oz 13.33 Platinum US$/oz 1,298.50 Rubber cents/kg 342.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 2,589.00 Brant USS/barrel 71.88
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      • 34 30 SGX, E Bloomberg Information provided by uss UK£ Yen HKS RM Euro 0.6512 0.3269 80.445 5.0884 2.2332 0.4850 Rupiah 5824.7 Baht 21.059 Peso 29.892 AS 0.7691 Indian Rs 26.551 Yuan 4.9606
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    • business news
      • 213 32 CHANNEL NEWSASIA It will grow into a clearing house of business knowledge INDIAN companies form one of the largest contingents of foreign firms in Singapore today, said Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang. Launching the India Business Forum together with the visiting Indian Foreign Affairs
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      • 106 32 -AGENCIES Temasek Holdings and Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) plan to buy about 40 per cent of ICICI Bank's share offer, the Economic Times reported yesterday, without saying where it got the information. Temasek had applied for 83 billion
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      • 174 32 —AFP UNITED States investment bank Merrill Lynch said yesterday it has sold the company's flagship office building in London to the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) for £480 million ($1.46 billion). The Merrill Lynch Financial Centre (MLFC) is located in the City of
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      • marketbuzz
        • 103 32 Nivea For Men launches its new advanced Energy range with anchor product Energizing Hydro Gel. This light, non-sticky facial moisturiser is designed to provide an instant burst of energy to the skin, especially for today's modern professional man who wants to look and feel his best,
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        • 154 32 It is that time of the year when thousands will throng the malls in search of good deals. Discover how you can exercise more than just your spending power. Join in a great workout and a chance to win fabulous prizes. The Challenge: Step up
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        • 98 32 Get ready for a fun-filled family time at Downtown East, D'Tent on Sunday from 10am to 6pm. Promising lots of pampering treats for mummies, this event is a carnival appreciating mothers and reciprocating their love for their families. Organised by Mummy Me, it will be officially
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        • 124 32 The Sanyo eneloop roadshow will be on from tomorrow until Sunday at The Heeren. Test your endurance and skill at the eneloop Open Circuit Challenge. In the game, the player has to manoeuvre a hoop through a twisted wire with many bends (picture), all the way
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      • 189 34 -DOW JONES BLOOMBERG The Singapore Department of Statistics said it has rebased its trade and manufacturing price indexes to reflect more recent patterns of economic activity. The new weightings will reflect a survey conducted in 2004 and 2005, replacing weightings based on conditions in 2000. A notable change in
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      • 336 34 Asia Pacific IT hub to be set up here over four years GERMANY-BASED conglomerate, Bosch Group, is investing $90 million over the next four years to set up its Asia Pacific information systems and services centre in Singapore. The move will consolidate 25 operational
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      • 442 35 —AGENCIES $1.3 billion of public funds misappropriated PUBLIC funds in China are being embezzled and pumped into the Shanghai stock market, threatening the stability of the high-flying bourse, the China Daily newspaper reported yesterday. As much as 6.32 billion yuan ($1.27 billion) of the
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      • 203 35 BLOOMBERG THE confidence among Chinese bankers dropped to a record low in the second quarter as bankers b came less optimistic over the country's economic growth, according to a survey by the People's Bank of China. An index that measures
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      • 252 36 BLOOMBERG TMB Bank, Thailand's fifth largest, will need to change its management before it can raise funds from a share sale to cover bad loans, the Finance Ministry said yesterday. Shareholders, including Thailand's Finance Ministry and Singapore's DBS Group Holdings, have
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      • 402 36 AFP IMF head issues warning about high-risk assets INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Rodrigo Rate (picture) has warned that some investors are rushing with "reckless disregard" into increasingly risky assets around the globe and may be in for a shock if things go sour. "I
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      835 38  -  MAYO MARTIN This year's Glastonbury FesfivaTnot only promises to be the biggest one, it could very well be the muddiest too mayo@mediacorp.com.sg The greatest rock show on earth returns hopefully without the mud. After a year in hiatus, organisers of the Glastonbury Festival, which kicks off on Friday,
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    • 218 40 -AFP Director's childhood fear of women in black 'shrouds'inspires gory film about psychopath ISLAMABAD Forget Freddy Krueger and Norman Bates here comes Burqa Man. The first serious Pakistani horror flick for a quarter of a century features a psychopath dressed in a blood-soaked version of
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    • 405 42  -  Zul Otfiman The Aussie rockers aren't quite the rock powerhouses one would expect CONCERTREVIEW I Jet The Shine On Tour 2007 FROM the moment Jet front man Nic Cester strutted on stage at 9pm on Tuesday, it was clear the Australian fancies himself a rock
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    • 627 44  -  ASIFANSAR From New Orleans to new frontiers for a time-tested musical genre that knows no borders asif@media corp.com.sg JAZZ is on the up swing. This was the view of many of the musicians from 17 countries who gathered to celebrate "the international language of jazz" at a recent
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    • 186 44 STYLE: magazine celebrates its fifth anniversary with Caldecott Queen Zoe Tay gracing the magazine's July cover decked out in Fendi. "We needed somebody who embodies style, and who k is very much interested in and has become somewhat of an expert in fashion," said
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        603 46  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Dollhouse uses dwarf actors to attack chauvinistic Victorian conventions Juliana.rasul@mediacorp.com.sg FOR American Lee Breuer, turning Jesus into a Bob Marley-ish figure for an adaptation of The Crucifixion is just part of a 37-year-old theatre career that has also seen him stage a gender-reversing King Lear
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        131 49 WHILE the men lie on the beach, only waking up to sell some cheap trinket to the occasional tourist, the women of Tulamben do the real work. And they do so by using their heads. Visiting divers need not lug their gear from resort to seaside; on this
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        • 90 50 If a spot of mud (wrestling) is what you are hankering for, Boryeong is the place to be next month. Located 200 km from Seoul, the seaside town hosts 30,000 visitors in its annual Mud Festival. From July 14 to 22, head to Boryeong's Daecheon Beach
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        • 90 50 To bring out the dazzle in its "Korea, Sparkling" campaign, Korea Tourism Organisation (KTO) has launched its Korea Tourism Photo, Poster and Flash Animation Contests 2007. Grand prize winners for the Tourism Photo Contest and Tourism Poster Contest will receive $16,560 each, while the winner
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        270 50  -  CAROL LIM You don't have to get cold to catch a hammerhead traveller@newstoday.com.sg LAYANG Layang is a skinny concrete strip located 300 km from the south-eastern edge of Kota Kinabalu. An island perched atop a seamount rising 2,000 m from the abyssal depths, this man-made wonder is part
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        • 53 52 Starting July 1, Emirates' Business and First-class passengers arriving in Venice International Airport will be able to take leisurely, scenic rides on partially enclosed Fiivastyle boats to their hotels. Passengers will board from a dedicated pontoon next to the airport and travel from the Italian mainland to
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      • 485 52  -  JENNIFER CHEN Check in early for a head start in decadent cruising jennifer@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN I boarded Star Cruises' 10--deck SuperStar Libra at dusk for a special overnight tour two weeks ago, it wasn't my first time on a cruise ship. But for all my
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      • 237 53 BILL and Glenys Volich are cruise junkies. The couple from Perth, Australia, flew to Singapore last month for a 21-day Asian Odyssey Cruise on SuperStar Gemini. It was their 55th cruise in 12 years. That's an average of 4.5 trips a year for more than a decade.
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    • 362 60 -AFP LONDON Sven-Goran Eriksson (picture) looks set to be offered a route back into football, if Thaksin Shinawatra's longawaited takeover of Manchester City finally goes ahead this week. Eriksson has not worked since England's quarter-final exit from last year's World
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